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May 6, 2012

French Poppies Tutorial !

I have another tutorial prepared for you today! Wait a minute ... 2 tutorials in a row?! Whoa! Now everybody who requested tutorials should be happy :D Let's see what we need for this manicure:

A dotting tool, bobby pin or tooth pick and one of this wider Nail Art brushes.If you don't have such a brush, I bet you could use the brush from the polish, since the flower we're doing is big and doesn't have to be perfect.

Let's start with the step-by-step tutorial!

1.) Apply the base of your french, a nude or clear polish, or nothing at all. Just do it, how you prefer it. I used 2 coats of O.P.I. Nail Envy.2.) Do the french tip with a white polish. If you don't know how to do this step, I'm sure you find some tutorials on Youtube on how to do a french mani ;) I made mine a little bit to thick, but we cover up more than a half of it, so it doesn't have to be perfect! :D3.) Now take the wide brush and a red polish and do the first petal of the flower. I like to start with the middle one, but you can also start at the side. Do it a bit diagonal and messy! The petal doesn't have to be perfectly round or with straight lines!
You get the hang of it after a few times ;)4.) Now do the other 2 petals on the sides. To create the petal I kinda dab the brush onto the nail. The wider your brush the bigger the petals!5.) After doing the same thing one more time, the red blobs start to look like a flower right? :D6.) The red I used wasn't very opaque so I added another coat of red polish.7.) Now add a green blob at the center of the flower, using the brush of the polish or a dotting tool.8.) Add some random brown spots with a dotting tool ...9.) ... and some black dots.10.) As always, finish off the design with one coat of TC and you're done! ;)

Actually you could skip step 7 & 8 and just add the black dots, it would have the same effect. :P

You can do this as an accent nail or as a full mani, like I did:

Tomorrow I have something exciting to show you! Well, at least it's exciting for me :D

I tried doing it just off the pic n it did not turn it too good. I'm do glad u put up a step by step. I'm wearing a red dress to my bf's bro's wedding this coming up weekend n I think this will look great! I love doing my own nails, its kind of my ”thing” lol thx a bunch :)